Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1917 — To Warn Future Kings. [ARTICLE]

To Warn Future Kings.

Premier Venizelos has announced his intention of placing a marble placque in the chamber of deputies, where future kings may see it when they take the oath of office, warning them against usurping the rights of the people, writes an Athens correspondent. He says that when he is in London, and visits the house of commons, he observes at the entrance to Westminster a conspicuous plaque reading: “Here was beheaded Charles I, King of England, for having usurped the liberties of the people of England.” Whenever a king now goes to Westminster to open or close the work of parliament he passes directly before this plaque, which has served for 200 years to warn British kings not to trench on the rights of the people Following this precedent, M. Venizelos will Inscribe on the plaque in the chamber here: “King Constantine lost his throne for twice dismissing the parliament elected by the people and imposing his personal policy on the people, while the "dismissed parliament returning to powtr upheld the constitution! institutions of the country.”